The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
George Orwell, 1984
Ah, if only George Orwell were still around to give us commentary on the collective meltdown, with certain honorable exceptions, Saletan I am looking at you, on most left wing blogs, I guess he wouldn’t be surprised at all. Orwell, a man of the Left, noted that in his time Leftists tended to be on the look out for heretics to transform into objects of hate. In our day the objects of Leftist wrath do not even need to be heretics. Thus George Zimmerman, one-quarter black Hispanic, an Obama voter, a man who an FBI investigation cleared of any racial motivation, has became an object of Leftist hate because he touched, accidentally, one of the great Leftist totems in this country: race.
Thomas Sowell, who recently noted that he is old enough to remember when most racial hatred came from whites, explains how a low level investigation of a fairly routine self defense shooting was transformed into a national morality play for the Left:
Go here to read the rest. We live in a political environment that is toxic in this country. One of the major reasons this is so is that the Democrat party makes political hay by constantly playing on race hatred and racial paranoia. That is why George Zimmerman is a useful symbol for the true forces of hate in our society and why he will probably never be able again to lead anything approaching a normal life. Despicable, absolutely despicable.
Maybe I shouldn’t write this, but in Daniel chapter 4 Nebuchadnezzer was made to eat grass for what he did, for his over-weening pride. Since God does not change, and God always does the right thing in the right way, one may well think on what God has in store for Obama and his constantly playing the race card. 🙁
Not so much for Obama but for We the People who perpetuate the farce.
In that America was designed a republic but almost immediately converted to the meaner and more crass democracy, I often wonder if that wasn’t Perfidy’s first assault on us.
“Thus Tyrants could practice, in a sense, “democracy.” But now “democracy” can do the same work without any tyranny other than her own.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Look at the injustice which has been throughout the “family courts” of the United States for decades. None of this surprises me and I expect things to continue to decay precipitously.
Our “justice system” is finished. We do not have the base of morality among the citizenry in America to sustain this republic. It is a fatal accident in progress and there will be no stopping it. Our government is the fruit of our immorality as a people. The more diverse our nation becomes, the worse our nation will become. It is finished. What remains is how and when.
God bless you, Don.
Karl,
The danger to our nation does not come from diversity; it comes from progressivism. While I do not share your pessimism, not do I share Don’s optimism (even if I appreciate it greatly). I am not impressed with the direction of our nation, and do not see much evidence suggesting a course correction any time soon. That said, we Catholics know that the final chapter of Life’s book has already been written, and God wins. No need for despair.
Obama and his gangsters have been hard at it since early 2009.
“Any country that divides itself into groups which fight each other will not last very long.” See Matthew 12:25; Mark 3:20-30; Luke 11:14-23.
YEsterday, I was off to see the dentist about gluing in an artificial tooth. I got to again watch “Pork Chop Hill” on AMC. I kept thinking that the GI’s depicted (they knew the war was over and gave their lives with barely a complaint) must seem like Martians to most of America’s (excepting my sons) youth.
We are a malignantly divided country of too many, in my opinion irreconcilable, deeply seeded beliefs. THAT is my meaning of diversity.
Such, as in divorce for “irreconcilable” differences, rarely ends well.
Perhaps, as you call it, Mike, the cause is progressivism but I do not think
it is that simple, although progressivism, certainly, is a sizeable, strong, destructive faction.
I do think the jury is a good example of trusting the people in a democracy. The juror is not to be a political activist lawyer like Eric Holder or Jasmine R. but any citizen legally agreed upon as suitable.
The fact that, at least I read it, three jurors, before they carefully relistened to the LAW, were ready to convict Mr. Zimmerman for either 2nd degree murder or manslaughter, should frighten anyone with functional neurons, to death, especially those three. But, I doubt it does, so many people are morally dead from the neck up!
I believe most people are unfit to sit on juries. A jury of peers, is a joke. The lowest common denominator is not a peer in my estimation.
One does not need a democracy in order to empanel a jury of peers. In fact, the personal responsibility and civic spirit necessary to perpetuate a republic would stand the greater chance of generating “peership.”
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karl, i would disagree that you will get the “lowest common denominator” as a peer in jury cases… i know little about the zimmerman case, though from what i did know superficially, it was easy to see he was innocent… i just sat on an aggravated assault case where each jury member far exceeded your “lowest common denominator”… sadly in this case it seems the LCD worked against the prosecution…the charge and instruction to the jury is critical in every case because it is based on the LAW and in the case of my trial, it allowed the jury to come to what i believe was a wrongful conclusion… thankfully there were some who viewed it differently and it ended in a hung jury… moral of the story is do your civic duty…always show up when called to serve … you might be the only right thinking individual on a jury swayed by things OTHER THAN the law
“To continue, you’ve listened to a long and complex case, murder in the first degree. Premeditated murder is the most serious charge tried in our criminal courts. You’ve listened to the testimony, you’ve had the law read to you and interpreted as it applies in this case, it’s now your duty to sit down and try to separate the facts from the fancy. One man is dead, another man’s life is at stake, if there’s a reasonable doubt in your minds as to the guilt of the accused, uh a reasonable doubt, then you must bring me a verdict of “Not Guilty”. If, however, there’s no reasonable doubt, then you must, in good conscience, find the accused “Guilty”. However you decide, your verdict must be unanimous. In the event that you find the accused “Guilty”, the bench will not entertain a recommendation for mercy. The death sentence is mandatory in this case. You’re faced with a grave responsibility, thank you, gentlemen.”
The Judge, 12 Angry Men